Blue-sky thinking overdue for climate change solutions

United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for El Nino and Climate, Macharia Kamau, who left for Mozambique yesterday said at a media briefing that though Botswana has managed severe weather events “in a way that has not spilled into a humanitarian crisis”, new models were overdue to curb the phenomenon.

The Kenyan diplomat and UN representative who met with government officials, among them Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, SADC and partners, said although Botswana’s social safety net programmes and resilience to the drought present best practice that the world can emulate, it was critical that government introspected on the sustainability of this model.